Nothing too crazy...lots of clipped out track edits, a few live elements here and there, and I like to use NI The Finger as an effects station as well as some other APC orientated Max for Live stuff. Overall I like the workflow though, it presents me with a greater challenge and more options to develop something really special. Typical DJing, Vinyl/CDJ/etc, is second nature at this point and more for casual fun imo. My first DJ rig was a combination of vinyl, CD, and archaic tracker software 20 years ago so I dont have the typical attachment or nostalgia to any one particular format. Live just happens to be the workflow I prefer right now when wanting to get more creative as a DJ.beats me wrote:Are you doing elaborate things within Live that makes it your preference for DJing?
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Donnie wrote:Nothing too crazy...lots of clipped out track edits, a few live elements here and there, and I like to use NI The Finger as an effects station as well as some other APC orientated Max for Live stuff. Overall I like the workflow though, it presents me with a greater challenge and more options to develop something really special. Typical DJing, Vinyl/CDJ/etc, is second nature at this point and more for casual fun imo. My first DJ rig was a combination of vinyl, CD, and archaic tracker software 20 years ago so I dont have the typical attachment or nostalgia to any one particular format. Live just happens to be the workflow I prefer right now when wanting to get more creative as a DJ.beats me wrote:Are you doing elaborate things within Live that makes it your preference for DJing?
Right on. It’s annoying when old school DJs or people who don’t DJ think warped tracks or the sync button have singlehandedly replaced any and all former DJ skills. Not having to manually sync tracks frees you up for all kinds of other possibilities like effects, loops, edits, cue point jumping, sampling, juggling, stacking more than 2 tracks at a time, etc. I honestly believe those possibilities terrify some old school DJs and they really don’t know what to do with it. They just want to rate manual beat matching as the most noble of skills and call it a day.
